Thankfully my kid is still "yummy cute" but he's already 5 and before I know it he'll lose his teeth and huge ones will grow back in their place and he'll, most likely, start doing something really hideous to his hair.
2007-12-10 00:13:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Ignore him.
It works like a charm.
2007-12-10 00:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I can only speak from personal experience. As you know, I became a chimney sweep around this age because my parents wanted me out of the house. This was partly due to my appearance and partly due to animal husbandry issues (my bedroom was used as a makeshift chicken coop). The soot also covered my face, thereby leaving me less hideous to the casual observer. On the negative side, the dust inhalation has left me with chronic lung damage requiring home oxygen. Other child slave labor options available to you include coal mining and sweat shop work, although you may have to send him overseas for these (all the better really). Of course in my case everything changed when I transformed in the hunk of burning love that you now see today.
2007-12-10 00:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Get a lot of paper bags and then cut eye holes in the appropriate places for him. Then as time allows, paint, draw or color nice smiling faces with perfect teeth on the bags and have him wear them from about age 9 to age 12. That should make you feel better just from his outward appearance being so dramatically nicer. Some people in the grocery store or TCBY may stare and not understand. You should simply look at these people and scream at the top of your lungs, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT YOU NAZIS?"
If you're feeling depressed about what a bad parent you are, take a couple of pipe cleaners and make a little halo to tape on the back of the bag and you can look at him and smile as if he were Opie Taylor himself! And when he says to you, "But I already brushed my teeth!" You can just smile and say, Of course you have dear. That's what MY parents did anyway.
2007-12-10 01:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
As long as he doesn't become one of those fat kids that they put on Maury, I think it'll come naturally to love him.
Though, your love may not be as grand as it was before, I think you'll still love him.
Then again........... well, if he gets really fugly, like we know some kids do (man, at one point during that time in my life, I only had one tooth in front; I looked like a hillbilly), then he may not deserve your love until he gets cute again. And maybe depriving him of your love would encourage him to get cute again. Who knows?
2007-12-10 01:32:35 · answer #4 · answered by EmilyJune 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
bless! you will love him no matter what. 9 is not so bad, my kids are 5 and 9. my 5 year old is really cute and cool, with his own sense of style, but my 9 year old is awkward and unsure of himself. i love them both to bits! wait until they are teenagers, then you will be wishing they were 9 again!
2007-12-10 00:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by dancing queen 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
ah yes the ugly stage...yep right around 6th grade...my oldest son really got chubby and insisted on bleaching his hair and wearing an ear ring that was just way to big to be cool....but at that age is when they stop listening to mom about what is cool and what is not.....he looks back at that age and accuses ME of making him look like that....I don't have the heart to tell him that I would never have made him look like that...
2007-12-10 00:26:31 · answer #6 · answered by ..................?............. 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If that's your biggest problem w/ raising kids...your lucky.
I guess you love them at that time the same way they'll love you as you get shorter, wrinkled, and absent minded.
2007-12-10 00:31:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
keep talking....always.... talk to them so that no matter what they go through they think their parent has their best interest at heart. They 'hear' you.... they 'store' it back there in their brain. They are just stuck trying to fit in with their peers.... and take heed to who & what they Identify with .... it will tell you a lot.
2007-12-10 00:30:53 · answer #8 · answered by Ronatnyu 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i am not sure, i need to ask my mom... my ugly phase was for 2 years old to about 21
2007-12-10 01:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Shame on you for basing your love of your child on his looks! Does it get any more shallow? I can understand if it were someone you're dating; but your son?
2007-12-10 00:19:40 · answer #10 · answered by jahshoowuh 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋